The Cost of—Drinking.
An advertisement that appeared iu a Taranaki paper of 50 years ago to-day will no doubt tuni the modern counterpafts of those interested tlien green with envy. For the sum of £1 the advertisement offered eight bottle of beer and oue bottle eaeli of -- hislcy, brandy, wine and rum. Out of the Blue. A ripple of laughter went round the Christchurch Magistrate's Court when counsel for the defendant in a motor collision caso was endeavouring to find from a wifcness where a motor-cycle coneerned in tho collision had come from. "But where did it come from? Cycles dont just appear from nowliere," he asked. "They do in this court," interjected the magistrate. "They are not tliere, and then suddenly they are." "Yes, sir," was the reply. "It is always mystifying in these cases when i cars suddenly materialke."-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 5
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141The Cost of—Drinking. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 5
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